Baku-APA. Turkish parliament approved Thursday the extension of the government's new motion to conduct military operations against the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in the north of Iraq for one more year, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The government submitted the motion to Parliament on Oct. 4 for the extension of the mandate, which allows the Turkish military to conduct new cross-border operations in northern Iraq to eradicate PKK hideouts in that country. The previous one will be expired on Oct. 17.
The motion was approved by votes of deputies of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), but the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) voted against it.
Turkish authorities started peace negotiations with PKK's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in October 2012, which led to a ceasefire between the two sides in March. In May, the PKK fighters in Turkey started to return to their stronghold in northern Iraq.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and some other countries, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.
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